Word: alfonsin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Argentine President Carlos Menem, at a rare meeting with his predecessor, Raul Alfonsin, leader of the opposition Civic Radical Union Party, won support for a constitutional measure lifting the ban on successive presidential terms. The deal canceled a scheduled referendum on the issue, which seemed likely to prove an embarrassing defeat for the Radicals. The reform must be ratified by the Civic Radical Union Party; it is then expected to breeze through the legislature. With a 40% approval rating, 10% ahead of any rival's, Menem is likely to make a bid for a second term...
...Noriega, his removal, they say, was not worth a violation of the principle of nonintervention. Few Latin countries have so far recognized the government of Panamanian President Guillermo Endara, and few are likely to do so as long as U.S. troops remain in that country. Said former President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina: "Disrespect for international law leads to the law of the jungle, and in that jungle we Latins are not the lion...